Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-19

bee hive,ssys, THAT field of clover is the
sweetest" sCd another bee hive says,
"That field of clover is the sweetest"
l come in between them, and l say,
"Slop this quarrel; if you like that ii ED
of clover best, go there; if you like that
field of clover best, 60 there; but let me
tell you thst that hive which gets the
most honey is the best hive" 50 [ come
out between the churches OF the Lord
Jesus Christ. Que denomination of
Christians says, "Tha. field OF Christian
doctrine is best" and another says,
"This field of Christian doctrine IS best"
Well, | say, go where you get the most
honey" That is the best churcn which
gets The most hoEeV OF Christian grace
for the heart, snd the most honey Of
I Christian usefulness for the life.
Beside that, if you want to build UP
any denomination, you VII never build II
up by trying to pull some other down.
Intolerance never put anything down.
| How much has intolerance accomplished,
for instance, against the Methodist
church? For long years her ministry
were forbidden the pulpits CT Great
! Britain. Why was it that so many Of
them preached in the field? Simply De-
cause
THEY COULD NOT GET IN
the churches. And the name CT the
church was given IN derison and as
sarcasm. The critics Of the church said
"They have no order, they have no method
N their worship;" and the critics, there
fore, in irony called them "Methodis.s. D."
am told that in Astor Library, New
York, kept az curiosities there are 701
books and pamphlets against Metnodism
Did intolerance stop that church? No; It
is either frst or second amid the denOm!-
nations of ChGistend0m, her missionary
stations IN all parts Of the world, her men
not only important in religious trusts,
but important also IN secular trusts.
Church marching Oh, and the more in
| tolerance against it,the faster it marched.
What did intolerance accomplish
against the Baptist church? IT laughing
scorn and trade could have destroyed
the church it would not have to-day &
disciple left.
The Baphsts were hurled out of Boston
in olden times. Those who sympathiZed
with them were confined, AID when pc
tition was offered asking leniency in their
behalf, all the men who signed it were
indicted. Has intolerance stopped the
Baptist church? The last statistics in re-
gard TO it showed about thirty thousand
churches and two and & half million COM
muniCants. Intolerance never put down
anything.
In England law WAS made against the
Jew. England thrust back the Jew and
thrust down the Jew, and declared that
no Jew should hold Official position
What came of it? Were the Jews de-
, stroyed? Was their religion overthr0wu?
No. Who became prime minister OF En-
lola
throne? Who was higher than the throne
because ne was counselor and adviser?
The descendant OF Jeg. What were we
celebrating in ell cur churches as well as
synag0gues g few years ago? The che
hundredth
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERsARI
of Montetore, the great Jewish phIlan-
Lhropist. Intolerance never yet put down
ANYTHING.
3. But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin OF bigotry or secterian-
ism, and having shown you the dams sc
it does, | want briefly TO show you how
we are to var against this terrible evil,
and | think we ought TO begin our war by
, realizing cur own weakness and our i'm
perfeCtions. II we make so many mis-
takes in the common affairs of lile, is il
not possible that we nay make mistakes
IN regard to our religious affdirs? Shall
we take man by the throat, or by the
collar, because he cannot see religious
truths just as we dc? In the light Of
eternity it will be found out, thin k,
there was something wrong in all ouz
Creeds, and something right in al our
, creeds. Bat 6iLCe we may make mistakes
: in regard 10 things of the world, do not
let Us be egotistic, and so puffed up as tC
have an idea th&t We cannot make any
mistake in regard to religious theories
And then think we will do great desl
. to overthrow the sectarianism from our
heart, and the sectarianism from the
world, by chiefly charging upon those
things in which we sgree rsther than
, those on which we differ
Now, here IS a great Gospel platform
A man comes up On this side the platform
and says, ~ don't believe in baby sprink-
!, ling" Stall shove him off? Here is Q
: man coming up on this side the platform,
! and he says, 81 don't believe in the per
+ severance of the saints" Shall l shove
him off? No. will say, "Do you be
lieve IN the Lord Jesus as your Savior?
do you trust Him for time ard for eterni-
f TYP" He says, eyes" "Do you take
: Christ for time and fer eterni-
, "! les. SNSJ SOHS ODJ
brother; one in time and one in eternity
brother now, brother forever" Blessed
: be God for Gospel Platform so lsIge
: that all who receive Christ may stand on
= il!
think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and
BIGOTRY N OUR HEARTS,
, and in the church also, by realizing that
. all the denomination Of Christians have
: Yielded noble institutions and noble men
There is nothing that SO stirs my soul q:
this thought, one denomination yielded
q Robert Hall and an Adoniran
=, Judson; another yielded a Latino!
and Melville; another yielded
> John Wesley and the blessed Summer
y field, while our own denomination viz lGeG
john Knox and the Alexanders-men OF
:, whom the world was not worthy. Now,
= l say, if we are honest and fair minded
men, when We come up in the presence
: Of such churches and such denomina
= tons, slthough they may be different
- from our own, we ought TO admire them
: aud we ought to love ard honor them
" Churches which can produce such men
. and such large hearted charity, and suct
y magnificent mertyrdom, ought to wAfHul
, afflction-at shy rate, our respec& 81
" come Oh, We 400,0 00 Episcopslians iis thu:
= country, ard ye 100000 Presbyteia6n
and We $50" ,0O0 Bsp:ists, and ye rArlJ
!; $3.50. 90 Metaodisis-come on ShdslI.
der to shoulder we will msrch Tor The